Today is Monday, July 1st. This is a great week! The Fourth of July weekend will be a traveling time for me. I’ll be going to Tampa for the Quarterly. I am happy that I am involved in AA so that I get to go to the Quarterlies. I missed the one in April because I had gone camping a few days before it and was leaving shortly for the 10 days to New Mexico and back. April was just a busy month for me. I find when I travel like that I really miss my kitties!
They are so sweet! I just love them. I’m thinking that I may want to get a bigger RV one day so we can all travel together. I’m just trying to figure out how to do that. Jacky Generous is going to North Carolina to see if she can move there eventually. I think I would like to go up there for the summers, but I would need to have the kitties with me. I think I might get a Class C. But then again, a TT is not out of the question either. I just need to find one that I can pull with the Jeep. But I have the same issue with storing it and I don’t want to create that extra payment. Plus, when I was looking for storage, it was limited and pretty expensive. So that would make me decide to sell my place and just travel around the country. It sounds romantic, but it might be a problem as I begin to get older and need to have a “home base”.
But there are a couple of things going on. In November, there is an RVing Women Convention in Arizona. I was thinking I would drive out to visit with Bill and Cathy. I was looking for a picture of their home but couldn’t find one on FB. So I’ll have to get one another way.
I’m going to the 8AM meeting now and then I’m going to join the GYM at Eagle Lakes Park. We’ll see how that goes! Be back later!
I enjoyed being there this morning. When I came in there was only one other person there beside the nice receptioniist. I didn’t really see the person because they were using the weight machine. I sat at the stationery bike. All 4 treadmills were not in use. It was really cool in there – the AC was blowing cold, so that is great. I’m probably going to go try again this afternoon when Wylie bugs me about eating!.
Another thing I did yesterday was to determine why my ROKU wasn’t working. Come to find out that it wasn’t plugged all the way in. So look at this:
Now I just need to figure out how it works really. I can get it to this point, but not sure what to do after that. Anyway – I’m glad I have that. I can entertain myself while garage camping. Now I’m thinking about pitching my shade tent in the lanai. It might be nice for the cats to have that relief. Plus it would be nice to see if it would stay up in a storm. Not sure how I’m going to do that yet. I’ll take pictures if I decide to do that.
I just went to see Mary Villagran and picked up my blow up bed. She has had it for a year and she finally got a real bed. I’m going to have it available for Nikki if she goes camping with me. That won’t happen until it cools off here in Florida. Probably November or December.
I’m going to take a break. Be back later – oh yea. I made a smoothie this morning with a banana, blueberries and Almond milk. I used the new hand mixer by Braun that I bought at artsy thrift. I LOVE IT! It will be great to have camping with me. Oh yea, another thing I have:
So this is a personal AC unit. It is perfect for those HOT days when you want to be outside but it’s too hot to stay out. It blows cold and is really neat. I’m buying one for Suzan for her birthday on 7/11. They are having a birthday party for her at Susan’s at Windstar, but I can’t go because I promised to work at artsy-thrift. Anyway, I bought her this great AC since she gets to hot since she had chemo for cancer years back. This picture also shows the hand held BRAUN mixer. Perfect size for camping!
So now I’m doing this:
I’m putting some solar lights out so tonight, I’ll watch the weather to see if I can leave it up all night. When it gets dark, I’ll put on the flamingos and the solar lanterns and “pretend” camp. FUN! It will be like camping. If I wanted to, I could sleep in Olivi@ with the AC on. I just got my “Brain Fitness” CD’s from PBS. I’m going to go read a little now and probably nap on the couch. LIFE IS GOOD!
So this is what the tent looks like at night and this morning. I’m sitting in a green chair with Wylie on my lap enjoying my coffee & the neighborhood sounds. I talked to Bill & Cathy last night & we talked about RVing & getting a bigger, more useable RV – probably a Class C. As much as I love Olivi@, I know if I continue to do this camping thing I’ll eventually want a bigger rig so the cats can go with me. That way I can leave the house empty & just venture out. I figure that Claudia could just step over once in a while to check on the AC. That would be super! Now to obsess over my next RV! Perfect! I’m going to fly out to Tucson and spend a couple of weeks with B&C searching for my next rig at Thanksgiving. That is so exciting!
